AIBU to tidy up before the cleaner arrives?

[Trucha10]

I have just spent 30 mins tidying up before the cleaner arrives. AIBU? Does anyone else do this?

I thought most people did that. The cleaner is there to clean, not tidy, and its much easier to clean somewhere neat.

You are paying her to clean so that sounds fine to me.

I did this when I had a cleaner. I just left the stuff i didn't want to do for the cleaner.

Tidying up - i.e., picking stuff up and putting it away so they can actually clean, or running around with a hoover and a damp cloth?

Well, do you want to pay someone to spend the same 30 mins tidying? I wouldn't.

I always tidy first. Don't see that she should have to pick up dirty clothes dropped on the floor by DH or DD. Also I feel that I am paying her to clean not tidy, so if she spends 15 mins excavating DD's room just to find the floor, that 15 mins that she's not spending actually cleaning.
And of course, if anything IS left lying around she tends to tidy it up into random piles that we only find weeks later, so better if we put stuff away first!

YANBU.

It's very difficult to actually clean if floors and surfaces are covered in clutter.

Marvellous. DP thinks we should just leave it all as it is, but I'm with you lot. Can't clean it if we can't see it.

I always tidied before the cleaner came. She is a cleaner not a tidier.